How smartphones are saving journalism

Aug122014

How smartphones are saving journalism

Submitted by Cybrarian on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 07:59

Frank Rose isn't buying the doom-and-gloom predictions that the decline of print means the death of journalism as we know it. In fact, he sees signs that it's doing quite nicely online: "For every fledgling enterprise like Circa, which generates slick digests of other people's journalism on the theory that that's what mobile readers want, you have formerly short-attention-span sites like BuzzFeed and Politico retooling themselves to offer serious, in-depth reporting."